Cutie Pie Fondant Cupcake Tutorial

My dad always recounts that his father {my grand­fa­ther} used to claim that he liked two kinds of pie: hot and cold! I’ve got­ta say that I’m a lit­tle more par­tic­u­lar about my pie, but I like all the usu­al sus­pects, espe­cial­ly the sea­son­al and tra­di­tion­al pies, such as good ‘ole fash­ioned apple pie and the Fall favorite of  pump­kin pie. Regard­less of the fla­vor, one thing’s for sure ~ it must be à la mode!

Today is Nation­al Pie Day and what bet­ter way to cel­e­brate than with an adorable cup­cake pie?! I made this cher­ry pie fon­dant cup­cake with a whole lot of rolled fon­dant balls as the fill­ing, but I am well aware that, very much like my grand­fa­ther’s pie taste, there are two kinds of peo­ple in this world: those who like the taste fon­dant and those sim­ply do not! So, if are one of the lat­ter, try uti­liz­ing choco­late or can­dies for the fill­ing for an extra fun sur­prise and eas­i­ly peel the fon­dant off, if desired. Head on over to the Craft­sy blog for the full step-by-step tuto­r­i­al to recre­ate this cutie pie fon­dant cup­cake. And if you’re hav­ing a cher­ry-themed par­ty, make the pie cup­cake your cen­ter­piece and sim­ply repli­cate addi­tion­al cher­ries for addi­tion­al cup­cakes! Hap­py {fon­dant} baking! ♥